Wikinews and China
The people who built the wonderful Wikipedia are planning another project – Wikinews. From the Wikinews homepage
Wikinews is a proposed project with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view.
Looking at how aggregators like Google News are willing to suppress stories to keep China happy, this Wiki based news systems looks like a good platform. But how soon before Wikinews and Wikipedia appear on China’s blocking radar, given that it is far easier for people to quickly translate and build localized version of the articles or news stories on a Wiki based system
October 30th, 2004 at 2:16 am
Thanks for posting on my blog. Here’s one for one. You seem to be quite a prolific writer…
November 2nd, 2004 at 3:27 pm
the chinese need to learn how to do what we do in the US - selectively ignore sources of information which we don’t like. its much more effective than suppressing them altogether